Research & Development
We always cooperate in an approachable and open atmosphere together with our customers. As a medium-sized company, we are flexible and able to keep lines of communication short.
Our Research & Development and Quality Assurance laboratory facilities
DuFor is constantly investing in its R&D and QA lab facilities to create innovative polyester products and solutions together with its customers. We are able to develop and supply products very rapidly due to the fact that we have our own in-house laboratory. As part of our technical support we offer our customers access to our R&D and QA lab. These include a variety of equipment for chemical and physical analysis as well as pilot and lab scale production facilities. In these laboratories, we support you with extensive analyses of your end products to help further optimize the raw material selection and/or your production processes.
3D-tour of our in-house laboratory
Our experienced laboratory team monitors the entire production process to guarantee consistently high quality levels. All of the relevant tests are performed for each product, all in compliance with the ISO standards. Our laboratory staff documents every detail about each batch produced to analyze the effects of any changes.
Our R&D and QA lab can support our customers with:
- Thermal analysis
- Physical analysis
- Rheological analysis
- Microscopic analysis
- Chemical analysis
- Production of lab scale raw material samples
Today, 70% of our R&D activities concentrate on sustainable applications, with a particular focus on bio-based polyesters and mechanical and chemical recycling. Together with the recycling know-how of our sister company Cumapol and the compounding expertise of DuFor we can produce materials based on 100% rPET flakes.
DuFor and Cumapol investing in expansion of laboratory testing equipment
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